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Brazil to bypass patent on costly AIDS drug
Ethics Newsline, Institute for Global Ethics, 2001Brazil's health minister announced last week (gone to press on the 23 Aug) that the government would break the patent of a leading anti-AIDS drug after its manufacturer, Hoffman-La Roche Inc., refused to lower its price to the level demanded by the government.Brazilian law allows a patent to be overridden if the government claims the patent holder is abusing its monopoly or in cases of nationalDocumentYoung men and HIV: culture, poverty and sexual risk
Panos Institute, London, 2001This report explains the critical role that young men play in the global AIDS pandemic. It highlights how they have been largely ignored in HIV interventions to date and explains how this exclusion could have devastating results in the long-term.DocumentAIDS, economic growth and the HIPC initiative in Honduras
WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001This paper explores how the AIDS epidemic is effecting Honduras's macroeconomic health.DocumentPost-TRIPS options for access to patented medicines in developing countries
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001Since developing countries spend a large percentage of their private household health expenditures on drugs, affordability of patented medicines is particularly important.DocumentDebt relief and health care in Kenya
WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001The paper proposes investment of possible debt relief proceeds in general preventive health care, human development, health equipment, medical supplies, health infrastructure and in programmes for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS-related diseases.Conclusions: Kenya deals with external debt together with regular servicing at the expense of such vital life programmes as health care,DocumentBotswana's future, Mozambique's future, Namibia's future: modelling population and sustainable development challanges in the era of HIV/AIDS
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2001Paper is part of the population-development-environment (PDE) framework of analysis and it presents major research findings, which are based on computer simulation models.DocumentWeekly Epidemiological Record (WHO)
World Health Organization, 1999The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations, other communicable diseases of public health importance, including the newly emerging or re-emerging infections, non-communicable diseases and other health problems.